What would such a transition look like? Yesterday, the IEA and International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) rolled out a new report laying out the investment path to reach a "low-carbon energy system" by 2050 and a complete phaseout of fossil fuels by 2060.

To the contrary, what we're seeing is an increasingly positive relationship between economic growth, sustainability and clean energy -- and an increasingly negative relationship between fossil fuels, economic and environmental well-being. In short, there are a host of reasons to decarbonize, and essentially no reasons to remain hooked on carbon-based fuels. The only question is how fast we ditch fossil fuels and go 100% cleantech.

“Here are five recommended reads for today (11/04/15).” US News reports a revealing divergence between the state politicians and their electorate: “Across the 26 states suing to stop the landmark rule – the first ever to limit carbon emissions from existing power plants – an...

Here are five recommended reads for today (8/14/15) “A report released Thursday by the Union of Concerned Scientists shows Minnesota is already on pace to exceed carbon-reduction goals by 2022 and 2030 as part of the requirements in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final Clean...

Here are five stories worth reading today (8/13/15) A new report released by NREL finds that “wind is poised to become a dominant and possibly the primary source of electricity in the U.S,” according to Greentech Media. “After the Environmental Protection Agency released its groundbreaking...

Here are five recommended reads for today (6/26/2015) “Bill Gates has announced he will invest $2bn (£1.3bn) in renewable technologies initiatives, but rejected calls to divest from the fossil fuel companies that are burning carbon at a rate that ignores international agreements to limit global...

Here are five recommended reads for today (6/10/15) “In a major victory for the Obama administration, a panel of federal judges has blocked a challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s planned efforts to limit carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants,” reports National Journal. The general counsel...

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We agree with the conclusion reached by PV Magazine, that although growth in renewable power in the United States is increasingly driven by non-RPS factors, "[t]his does not mean that RPS policies are not important."

Here are some key points from a new study by the Brattle Group for NRDC, entitled "Advancing Past 'Baseload' to a Flexible Grid," which argues that far from being a problem, a higher share of clean energy is actually a great opportunity for a wide variety of reasons.

In sum, the future looks extremely bright for clean energy, and for cleantech more broadly. The question isn't whether these sectors will grow rapidly, but simply how rapidly they'll grow. On that, we'd argue that EIA is far too conservative (or pessimistic, if you prefer), while BNEF is quite possibly too conservative as well, although they appear to be much closer to the mark than EIA's typically bearish-on-renewables, bullish-on-fossil-fuels forecasts.

According to a new report by the Energy Storage Association (ESA) and GTM Research, the U.S. energy storage industry is on fire, having just "deployed 71 MW of energy storage in Q1 2017...up 276% from the 18.9 MW deployed in Q1 2016," and with a lot more growth on the way.

See below for video of Chris Brown of Vestas, keynoting the opening session on day two of WINDPOWER 2017, concluding today in Anaheim, CA. According to Brown, who is completing his tenure as Chair of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the next five years will be the "best five years of your life" for the wind power industry.

But wind and other major cleantech sectors rely on distribution-only or distribution-mostly strategies that leave most of the marketing communications (“marcom”) power of these tools on idle. This year, we looked at why that happens. A few external drivers explain a lot.